SBIR/STTR Research Award
Radiation Hardened Interceptor Communications
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- WELKIN SCIENCES, LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-06-01
- Contract end date
- 2011-05-31
- UEI
- UMMSV9GTE5K1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- MDA07-T010
Research abstract
The Welkin Sciences/West Virgina University team proposes to develop four specific items to reduce procurement risks for future MDA interceptor communication system: 1) design and analyze a new interceptor communication system design formed by adding a high-bandwidth relayed video downlink (RVD) to the Advanced Interceptor Data Link (AIDL) design currently being developed by Welkin Sciences under MDA SBIR MDA06-005; 2) upgrade the COMLNK simulation tool to include the capability to emulate and optimize the AIDL/RVD design; 3) upgrade the COMLNK Hardware Platform (CHP) rapid prototyping system to support user-defined configurations of the AIDL/RVD architecture that can be evaluated using standard HWIL scintillation testing methods; and 4) design a radiation hardened AIDL modem signal processor that can be tested using standard radiation testing methods. MDA will then have a solid starting point for procuring scintillation- hardened and radiation-hardened interceptor communication systems that are capable of sending end-game video imagery back down to ground-based terminals.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Nuclear Scintillation Mitigation by Matched Channel Filtering
- Nuclear Scintillation Mitigation by Matched Channel Filtering
- Hardware-in-the-Loop Scintillation Simulator for MILSATCOM links in a Nuclear Disturbed Communication Environment
- Real-Time Frequency-Selective Fading Channel Realization Generator
- Configurable Link Test Set (CoLTS) Jamming Capability
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Diamond Technology High Temperature Electronics Radiation Hardened Interceptor Communications
- Diamond Technology High Temperature Electronics Radiation Hardened Interceptor Communications
- Radiation Hardened Interceptor Communications
- Radiation Hardened Interceptor Communications
Research funding history
37 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2022). Reported award amounts total $18,847,752. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense